Are There Any Moderates Here?

[Mac1958]

See?


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Exactly. You come here to insult people while accusing them of being insulting. It's what you do.

You're welcome to point out the personal insult.

Go ahead. I'll wait here.
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Sure, you smug bastard. You started out with:
"I've noticed that the one thing a winger hates more than anything else is being compared to or equated with a winger from the other side."

And you took that as a personal insult?

Wow, I had no idea how sensitive you are.

My sincerest apologies. Maybe you should put me on ignore or find a safe space. I'd hate to cause any more trauma.
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Oh fuck you. You just proved my point but your too arrogant to even see it. Don't tell people to put you on ignore. You are not that important.

When did I say I took your comment as a personal insult? You twist everything to fit your purpose and your purpose is to demonstrate how superior you are.

Uh...

I said "You're welcome to point out the personal insult. Go ahead. I'll wait here."

Then you said "Sure, you smug bastard. You started out with: 'I've noticed that the one thing a winger hates more than anything else is being compared to or equated with a winger from the other side.'"

So yeah, I think a normal person would conclude that you took what I said as a personal insult.

My goodness.

Maybe you want to start over? Try again? I'm embarrassed for you.
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[Bruce_T_Laney]

Exactly. You come here to insult people while accusing them of being insulting. It's what you do.

You're welcome to point out the personal insult.

Go ahead. I'll wait here.
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Sure, you smug bastard. You started out with:
"I've noticed that the one thing a winger hates more than anything else is being compared to or equated with a winger from the other side."

And you took that as a personal insult?

Wow, I had no idea how sensitive you are.

My sincerest apologies. Maybe you should put me on ignore or find a safe space. I'd hate to cause any more trauma.
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Oh fuck you. You just proved my point but your too arrogant to even see it. Don't tell people to put you on ignore. You are not that important.

When did I say I took your comment as a personal insult? You twist everything to fit your purpose and your purpose is to demonstrate how superior you are.

Uh...

I said "You're welcome to point out the personal insult. Go ahead. I'll wait here."

Then you said "Sure, you smug bastard. You started out with: 'I've noticed that the one thing a winger hates more than anything else is being compared to or equated with a winger from the other side.'"

So yeah, I think a normal person would conclude that you took what I said as a personal insult.

My goodness.

Maybe you want to start over? Try again? I'm embarrassed for you.
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I am starting to feel many wingers suffer from Stewie Syndrome and Victory will be theirs damn you vile woman!!!

 

[rightwinger]

Just out of curiosity, this forum seems pretty polarized, which is fine, I come here to debate. However, I was curious if there were any other moderates out there along with me?

I'm left leaning, but, perhaps because I was raised in the South and served in the Marines, am a moderate liberal. I can say I voted split ticket for this past election and, even though I am on the left the candidate I was most behind in our last election was Rubio rather than Trump, Clinton, or Sanders.

I'm also a big fan of Sen. John McCain as well as a fan of Sen Elizabeth Warren. So, is there anybody else out here that toes the fence line between parties? I feel like I'm a dying breed here.

I tried to come on the board as a moderate.......it doesn't work
Conceding half of someone's points just means they will take that half and then start demanding the other half while ignoring the validity of your points

This board is more about talking smack than political discourse

 

[Iceweasel]

Exactly. You come here to insult people while accusing them of being insulting. It's what you do.

You're welcome to point out the personal insult.

Go ahead. I'll wait here.
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Sure, you smug bastard. You started out with:
"I've noticed that the one thing a winger hates more than anything else is being compared to or equated with a winger from the other side."

And you took that as a personal insult?

Wow, I had no idea how sensitive you are.

My sincerest apologies. Maybe you should put me on ignore or find a safe space. I'd hate to cause any more trauma.
.

Oh fuck you. You just proved my point but your too arrogant to even see it. Don't tell people to put you on ignore. You are not that important.

When did I say I took your comment as a personal insult? You twist everything to fit your purpose and your purpose is to demonstrate how superior you are.

Uh...

I said "You're welcome to point out the personal insult. Go ahead. I'll wait here."

Then you said "Sure, you smug bastard. You started out with: 'I've noticed that the one thing a winger hates more than anything else is being compared to or equated with a winger from the other side.'"

So yeah, I think a normal person would conclude that you took what I said as a personal insult.

My goodness.

Maybe you want to start over? Try again? I'm embarrassed for you.
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I didn't say you insulted me personally but you are hurling personal insults with your comments. Which is par for the course.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

I am a Kinettacist. Hear me roar.

No political party is guaranteed of my affections. I vote issues, based upon an originalist/textualist view of the Constitution.

The fact that the Democrats have had almost no positions on national or foreign issues for which I could vote in over two decades is quite simply not my fault.

I don't know what the Democrats currently are. They defy description. Certainly, it is not American.

 

[Boss]

Just out of curiosity, this forum seems pretty polarized, which is fine, I come here to debate. However, I was curious if there were any other moderates out there along with me?

I'm left leaning, but, perhaps because I was raised in the South and served in the Marines, am a moderate liberal. I can say I voted split ticket for this past election and, even though I am on the left the candidate I was most behind in our last election was Rubio rather than Trump, Clinton, or Sanders.

I'm also a big fan of Sen. John McCain as well as a fan of Sen Elizabeth Warren. So, is there anybody else out here that toes the fence line between parties? I feel like I'm a dying breed here.

I didn't participate in the poll because I think you're mixing ideologies with philosophies. Conservatism is a philosophy. It is the moderate antithesis of extremism or radicalism. Within Conservative philosophy resides numerous ideologies. There are the globalist/NWO or "neocons"... they are mostly the establishment republicans. There are the Nationalist-populists. There are the evangelicals or "social conservatives"... the largest voting demographic. There are the libertarians and the constitutional conservatives, which is what I identify as. We all sharply disagree on things but because we are not radical extremists, we can generally find common political ground.

Contrast this with the Extreme/Radical philosophy. Here you find the Liberals, Progressives, Socialists, Democratic Socialists, Communists, Anarchists, Marxists, and other extremist fringe groups. And none of this is set in stone, there are certainly some crossovers. It's possible to be both a Liberal AND a Conservative. Bill Clinton is a prime example. He was a populist who utilized conservative philosophy to carry a liberal message and it appealed to a large cross-section of society.

 

[Toro]

Just out of curiosity, this forum seems pretty polarized, which is fine, I come here to debate. However, I was curious if there were any other moderates out there along with me?

I'm left leaning, but, perhaps because I was raised in the South and served in the Marines, am a moderate liberal. I can say I voted split ticket for this past election and, even though I am on the left the candidate I was most behind in our last election was Rubio rather than Trump, Clinton, or Sanders.

I'm also a big fan of Sen. John McCain as well as a fan of Sen Elizabeth Warren. So, is there anybody else out here that toes the fence line between parties? I feel like I'm a dying breed here.

I tried to come on the board as a moderate.......it doesn't work
Conceding half of someone's point just means they will take that half and then start demanding the other half

This board is more about talking smack than political discourse

Absolutely.

Not many here are interested in a decent discussion. They are interested in dissing the other side and reinforcing their partisan worldview.

 

[OldLady]

Just out of curiosity, this forum seems pretty polarized, which is fine, I come here to debate. However, I was curious if there were any other moderates out there along with me?

I'm left leaning, but, perhaps because I was raised in the South and served in the Marines, am a moderate liberal. I can say I voted split ticket for this past election and, even though I am on the left the candidate I was most behind in our last election was Rubio rather than Trump, Clinton, or Sanders.

I'm also a big fan of Sen. John McCain as well as a fan of Sen Elizabeth Warren. So, is there anybody else out here that toes the fence line between parties? I feel like I'm a dying breed here.

At least I think I'm an Independent and a moderate, like you, but a lot of conservatives here disagree. We need to be polarized or it gets people confused.
What do you like about Elizabeth Warren? She's pretty not moderate, I think.

I am not trying to insult you but you're to the left of Hillary Clinton, so I just consider you left but not a fringer seeing some very very very few times we agree on something... Did I wrote very enough!?!

I agree with you quite a bit, Bruce, although you usually throw in some off the wall shit so I can't in good conscience hit "Agree." On some things I'm left but on others I'm not aligned with the left at all. Of course, when people are being completely outrageous I'm going to react, and that's unfortunately a lot of what you get here--people taking any hope of discussing policy or ideas and turning it into a rock throwing fest.
Please don't ever, ever, ever again think that I'm to the left of Hillary Clinton. That would be Warren territory, and I AM NOT THERE.

 

[rightwinger]

Just out of curiosity, this forum seems pretty polarized, which is fine, I come here to debate. However, I was curious if there were any other moderates out there along with me?

I'm left leaning, but, perhaps because I was raised in the South and served in the Marines, am a moderate liberal. I can say I voted split ticket for this past election and, even though I am on the left the candidate I was most behind in our last election was Rubio rather than Trump, Clinton, or Sanders.

I'm also a big fan of Sen. John McCain as well as a fan of Sen Elizabeth Warren. So, is there anybody else out here that toes the fence line between parties? I feel like I'm a dying breed here.

I tried to come on the board as a moderate.......it doesn't work
Conceding half of someone's point just means they will take that half and then start demanding the other half

This board is more about talking smack than political discourse

Absolutely.

Not many here are interested in a decent discussion. They are interested in dissing the other side and reinforcing their partisan worldview.

I tried to conduct honest discussion when I came on the board. If they made four points, I might concede one or two as valid arguments. None of my points would be accepted as valid. So I just stopped acknowledging the other sides arguments
There are a few threads where honest discussions but they are few and far between

 

[Dogmaphobe]

The one tendency I have noticed when it comes to these self-assessments, is that few people have the ability to really look at themselves honestly. They imagine themselves as moderate when they are fire-breathing partisans.

This forum is dominated by hacks, and the true moderates and independents are fewer in number than the results here suggest.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

It is hilarious when you realize how much in common the two wingers have with each other with their hatred for anyone that disagree with them!

Yup. And they use precisely the same tactics: Deflection, distortion, denial, straw man arguments, personal insults, name-calling, hyperbole, obtuseness, and outright lies.

At this point I just let them flail away until they get tired.
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....and many of them like to use the "funny" response to indicate derision towards those who think for themselves.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

I am a moderate conservative.

and I am an Abercrombie and Fitch model.

 

[TNHarley]

Just out of curiosity, this forum seems pretty polarized, which is fine, I come here to debate. However, I was curious if there were any other moderates out there along with me?

I'm left leaning, but, perhaps because I was raised in the South and served in the Marines, am a moderate liberal. I can say I voted split ticket for this past election and, even though I am on the left the candidate I was most behind in our last election was Rubio rather than Trump, Clinton, or Sanders.

I'm also a big fan of Sen. John McCain as well as a fan of Sen Elizabeth Warren. So, is there anybody else out here that toes the fence line between parties? I feel like I'm a dying breed here.

Moderate is fair for me I guess.
Fuck the duopoly. That shit is for the birds.
My thinking is all over the map. I could get called a commie, liberal, con or fascist in the same day. Guess its because I think for myself

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Just out of curiosity, this forum seems pretty polarized, which is fine, I come here to debate. However, I was curious if there were any other moderates out there along with me?

I'm left leaning, but, perhaps because I was raised in the South and served in the Marines, am a moderate liberal. I can say I voted split ticket for this past election and, even though I am on the left the candidate I was most behind in our last election was Rubio rather than Trump, Clinton, or Sanders.

I'm also a big fan of Sen. John McCain as well as a fan of Sen Elizabeth Warren. So, is there anybody else out here that toes the fence line between parties? I feel like I'm a dying breed here.

All the moderates are at their local hospital having the pickets from the fence they constantly sit on surgically removed from their rectums.

If you served in the Marines yet are a moderate liberal, I have to ask a personal question. Did the castration hurt?

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

I am a moderate conservative.

You are a lying sack of excrement. That is all we need to know.

 

[OldLady]

Just out of curiosity, this forum seems pretty polarized, which is fine, I come here to debate. However, I was curious if there were any other moderates out there along with me?

I'm left leaning, but, perhaps because I was raised in the South and served in the Marines, am a moderate liberal. I can say I voted split ticket for this past election and, even though I am on the left the candidate I was most behind in our last election was Rubio rather than Trump, Clinton, or Sanders.

I'm also a big fan of Sen. John McCain as well as a fan of Sen Elizabeth Warren. So, is there anybody else out here that toes the fence line between parties? I feel like I'm a dying breed here.

Moderate is fair for me I guess.
Fuck the duopoly. That shit is for the birds.
My thinking is all over the map. I could get called a commie, liberal, con or fascist in the same day. Guess its because I think for myself

Yesterday I was black. True story.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Moderate! I've voted republican until they drove the train off the cliff. Been becoming far more liberal now that I married a liberal and that has opened my eyes to reality.

you mean led you by the nose

If he married a liberal, his husband is leading him by a different part of his anatomy.

 

[OldLady]

It is hilarious when you realize how much in common the two wingers have with each other with their hatred for anyone that disagree with them!

Yup. And they use precisely the same tactics: Deflection, distortion, denial, straw man arguments, personal insults, name-calling, hyperbole, obtuseness, and outright lies.

At this point I just let them flail away until they get tired.
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....and many of them like to use the "funny" response to indicate derision towards those who think for themselves.

Yeah, well considering that you have used that on me, as well, you're a fine one to complain about it.

 

[TNHarley]

Just out of curiosity, this forum seems pretty polarized, which is fine, I come here to debate. However, I was curious if there were any other moderates out there along with me?

I'm left leaning, but, perhaps because I was raised in the South and served in the Marines, am a moderate liberal. I can say I voted split ticket for this past election and, even though I am on the left the candidate I was most behind in our last election was Rubio rather than Trump, Clinton, or Sanders.

I'm also a big fan of Sen. John McCain as well as a fan of Sen Elizabeth Warren. So, is there anybody else out here that toes the fence line between parties? I feel like I'm a dying breed here.

Moderate is fair for me I guess.
Fuck the duopoly. That shit is for the birds.
My thinking is all over the map. I could get called a commie, liberal, con or fascist in the same day. Guess its because I think for myself

Yesterday I was black. True story.

Lol I saw that

 

[Mac1958]

You're welcome to point out the personal insult.

Go ahead. I'll wait here.
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Sure, you smug bastard. You started out with:
"I've noticed that the one thing a winger hates more than anything else is being compared to or equated with a winger from the other side."

And you took that as a personal insult?

Wow, I had no idea how sensitive you are.

My sincerest apologies. Maybe you should put me on ignore or find a safe space. I'd hate to cause any more trauma.
.

Oh fuck you. You just proved my point but your too arrogant to even see it. Don't tell people to put you on ignore. You are not that important.

When did I say I took your comment as a personal insult? You twist everything to fit your purpose and your purpose is to demonstrate how superior you are.

Uh...

I said "You're welcome to point out the personal insult. Go ahead. I'll wait here."

Then you said "Sure, you smug bastard. You started out with: 'I've noticed that the one thing a winger hates more than anything else is being compared to or equated with a winger from the other side.'"

So yeah, I think a normal person would conclude that you took what I said as a personal insult.

My goodness.

Maybe you want to start over? Try again? I'm embarrassed for you.
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I didn't say you insulted me personally but you are hurling personal insults with your comments. Which is par for the course.

I don't think you understand what a "personal insult" is.

But that's okay.
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